Anne Arundel wants to balance access to the Chesapeake Bay. Critics call it rationing.

I was lost in a thicket of pawpaws and towering bittersweet vines at South River Farm Park. Lisa Arrasmith and Mike Lofton were walking me to the water’s edge, picking a path through public land across the South River from Annapolis. It was overgrown and littered with flotsam from hundreds of surging storms. His knee was dodgy but holding up.